Ford Motor Company

Staff Software Technical Program Manager

Ford Motor Company$120K — $150K *
Consumer Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7-10 years in software or technical program management
  • Experience delivering software for hardware builds
  • Background in electrical, systems, or software engineering
  • Hands-on experience with consumer electronics or automotive development
  • Ability to manage execution across cross-functional teams

Responsibilities

  • Own end-to-end execution of software deliverables relative to hardware milestones
  • Act as the sole owner for software program execution, synchronizing various engineering teams
  • Drive alignment on software roadmap, engineering readiness, and release execution
  • Clarify scope, requirements, and delivery timelines, ensuring accountability
  • Own decisions involving scope, schedule, and quality for sustainable software
  • Establish and enforce planning and execution frameworks, such as Jira
  • Translate technical topics into concise executive updates
  • Identify risks and drive mitigation strategies to maintain project integrity

Benefits

  • Collaborative work environment
  • Opportunities for professional growth and advancement
  • Focus on operational excellence and continuous improvement
  • Engagement with cutting-edge technology in software and hardware integration
  • Possibility to lead and influence cross-functional initiatives
Full Job Description
Job Description

The ideal candidate is highly execution-oriented, technically fluent, and experienced in coordinating software delivery across hardware-constrained timelines.

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

  • Own end-to-end execution of software deliverables (firmware, end-of-line) aligned to hardware build milestones (SMT, FATP, vehicle builds)


  • Act as the single point of ownership for software program execution, ensuring alignment across Software Engineering, Product Management, Program Management, and Quality Engineering.


  • Drive software roadmap alignment, engineering readiness, milestone planning, and release execution.


  • Drive clarity of scope, requirements, dependencies, risks, and delivery timelines, holding teams accountable to commitments.


  • Own trade-off decisions across scope, schedule, and quality, with a strong bias toward long-term software sustainability and product quality. Planning, Tools, and Process Excellence


  • Establish and enforce strong planning, execution, and tracking frameworks, including Jira workflows and operational metrics.


  • Translate complex technical topics into clear executive-level updates, enabling informed decision-making.


  • Proactively identify risks, drive mitigation strategies, and resolve execution blockers to maintain schedule, quality, and software readiness.


  • Champion operational excellence by continuously improving software development processes, communication, and cross-team execution models.


Qualifications

Technical Leadership & Problem Solving

  • Maintain a system-level understanding of software architecture for hardware devices running embedded Linux/Android and cloud-connected services


  • Engage deeply with architects and senior engineers to validate feasibility, sequencing, and technical risk.


  • Drive resolution of cross-layer issues spanning hardware, system software, applications, and cloud services.


  • Ensure engineering quality, integration readiness, and software stability throughout the development lifecycle.


Required Qualifications

  • 7-10 years of experience in software or technical program management


  • Experience delivering software aligned to hardware development and manufacturing builds.


  • Background in electrical, systems, or software engineering with strong understanding of embedded systems and software development lifecycles


  • Hands-on experience working with consumer electronics or automotive hardware development timelines.


  • Proven ability to manage execution across cross-functional and cross-company teams

About Ford Motor Company

Ford Motor Company manufactures or distributes automobiles in addition to offering financial services. The company sells to dealerships for retail sales, and for sale to fleet customers, including commercial fleet customers, daily rental car companies, and governments. Ford’s vehicle portfolio includes automobiles, buses, tractors, and trucks. Retail financing includes retail installment sale contracts for new and used vehicles, and direct financing leases for new vehicles to retail customers, government entities, daily rental car companies, and fleet customers. Finance receivables in the non-consumer portfolio include products offered to automotive dealers. Ford’s environmental initiatives include compressed natural gas, flexible fuel vehicles, electric drive vehicles, Hydrogen, PC power management, and so on. Ford Motor Company was founded by Henry Ford in 1903 and is headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan.

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Size
183,000 employees
Market Cap
$44.8 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$1.2 billion
Founded
1903
5 Year Trend
-2.1%
Revenue
$127.1 billion
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